While Assassinâs Creed Mirage is set to be a smaller, more focused return to form for the long-running stab-everything franchise, that doesnât mean the rest of the series is doing the same. And todayâs Ubisoft Forward event showed off a bit of what the series has in store for mobile and VR platforms.
Today we got a look at what Assassinâs Creed Codename Jade, first announced at last yearâs showcase, will look like via a short teaser trailer, as well as news of a VR title for Meta Quest headsets. During 2022’s Ubisoft event, the publisher dedicated an enormous section of its show to giving Assassinâs Creed fans a large, huge, very enormous taste of whatâs to come. That super dense sequence included a bunch of codenames, a look at Assassinâs Creed Mirage, which is expected to release in October, and a Netflix-partnered mobile game.
Assassinâs Creed has, for many years now, been a very expansive universe, featuring wild, unpredictable, and twisting narratives set over the centuries. Itâs gone through multiple countries and historical periods, so many that the game often just feels like a history sim…just, you know, with a bit of a sci-fi twist.
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While many might be more than a little skeptical of the upcoming mobile-only Assassinâs Creed Jade project, which is set in ancient China and is the product of a partnership with Netflix, it promises to be on the scale of other AAA games, and at least from some of the gameplay seen today, it sure looks like itâs trying to be.
But of course thatâs not all. Ubisoft has two other mainline Assassinâs Creed games on the way, with the codenames Hexe and Red. Both of which were absent from todayâs show
Red is expected to deliver on a much-desired trip to feudal Japan, aiming to capture super stealthy ninja moments. Unlike the upcoming Mirage, Ubisoft has described Red as having more in common with the larger worlds of Valhalla and such. Meanwhile, Hexe is expected to get all spooky with some witchcraft themesâand I am 100 percent here for that.
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